An audio codec employing lossy compression, used for many consumer audio storage and playback devices.
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How do mp3 encoders compress audio?
I know they remove certain sounds, like extreme highs and lows, but how does this really work?
What information is decided to be thrown out? Is it just done by frequency and typical human hearing ...
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Audio tweaks pre-encoding for high quality MP3 output
I run an internet radio station. We encode our audio into MP3 at 128kbit, joint-stereo 44.1kHz, with LAME. Obviously there are limits to the quality that can be achieved with this bandwidth... ...
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Is there a utility software to set a default sound output level for a number of MP3 tracks?
Some of the tracks in my MP3 collection have low output sound and this requires that I adjust volume level back and forth every time such a track plays and completes. Is there an application that I ...
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Will ripping my old 90's and 2000's CDs yield as good a quality as buying the MP3s today?
I have a bunch of old CDs from 1990 and 2000 that I want to rip as MP3s to my computer. I am not an audio buff, so perhaps this question is a bit irrelevant to my personal quality preferences, but ...
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Are there any audible differences between 192 and 320 kbit/s .mp3 files?
This is a question that's currently being discussed on skeptics.stackexchange. It was thought reasonable to get some input from the audio experts. So with the author's permission I'm posting it here.
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MP3 cd in car stereo
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, so if it isn't feel free to move or delete it.
I just burned an MP3 cd (let's call it CD 1) with about 80 songs on it, and it plays fine on ...
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Is it possible to separate voices from one mp3 file?
I want to separate 2 or more voices from one audio file,
is there any software to this ?
I have done some googling and seen that the answer is NO in most cases.
But I think at least there should be ...
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Program to generate midi sounds and sequences
I have a few songs I have written for a band using TuxGuitar, with the classic set of instruments: 2 guitars, 1 bass and drums. I can export this songs to MIDI, but since a while I've been searching ...
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MP3 Podcast Problems… mp3 file format?
I'm having trouble with an audio file.
If you look over at this Ask Different question I submitted, you'll see I was having issues with getting a podcast to work in iTunes. I finally narrowed it ...
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Best format for online served speaches [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the best ubiquitous format for compressed voice audio?
I need to serve online through a web site and flash/html5 media player a large number of audio files which ...
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Opus vs MP3 (Size & Quality Comparison)
How does Opus differ from MP3 when comparing both in relation to the file size and quality. For example if I were to convert a 320kbps or 128kbps file that is 10MB or 4MB in mp3 format to opus, what ...
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Software to combine a MP3 and a CD+G file
I am looking for software to turn MP3 and CD+G into an MP4, MOV, AVI, or any other common video format.
Any suggestions?
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FLAC vs MP3 (Lossless vs Lossy)
I tried to compare one file which was flac with mp3 file that was converted from FLAC.
I kept comparing these two files and I really had hard time differencing between these two codecs.
It was ...
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Easiest way to convert audio tape to mp3?
I have a few hundred of audiotapes; I am looking for an easiest way to convert them to mp3; I would like to find a software which would
1) adjust recording level automatically (and do it gradually - ...
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Is it possible to loop MP3 without gaps?
Any sound editor adds little gap on the beginning and on the end of sound loop when I convert it to mp3.
Deleting gap is useless, after reload it’s still there…
Is there any way to solve this?
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Re-encoding MP3 reduces quality
If we have an MP3 file and we decode it to an uncompressed WAV file and then later encode it to MP3 again at the same sample rate - why is it that the quality gets degraded?
This is a past exam ...
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How do I mass convert mp3 to an open format without losing quality?
I have some mp3 files - stems from a track ready for remix. The originals in a non-lossy format are not available. I would like to open them in Ardour, on linux, but Ardour doesn't open mp3s, because ...
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MP3 date tag format
I want to tag a whole lot of mp3s (in MediaMonkey) and I was wondering what format I should use for the "date" tag.
Ideas:
DD.MM.YYYY
MM/DD/YYYY
MM.DD.YYYY
YYYY-MM-DD
Is there any standard for ...
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Lossless music service [closed]
Before I began caring about the quality of my music, I purchased and downloaded a significant amount of music online. Most of the music is 320 kbps MP3.
Do services exist that would scan a music ...
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Mp3 codec reencoding effects
Does encoding a low bit rate (say 128 kbps) Mp3 from a 320 kbps Mp3 produce the same thing as encoding it from the original lossless? Or does the way Mp3 work mean that the losses compound on each ...
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How to recognize deep from loud sounds?
I found a player at newgrounds.com time ago (cannot find it now, forgot the url, will comment if i find it) that has two pairs of speakers. The upper pair plays loud sounds or screamy sounds but the ...
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An easy way to create videos for YouTube from mp3 files
Is there an easy way to convert multiple mp3 files to video files at once? I could of course use a simple video editor, but I was thinking more of an app that would take multiple mp3 files, set the ...
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What could be causing distortion on my MP3 when imported into Audacity?
I appreciate that this is an open ended question; I'm really looking for some pointers on what to look at next.
I recorded 48 minute conversation into an MP3 at 128kbps. It's a stereo recording with ...
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How to use ZOOM H4N to vary speed of nearly “any” MP3 clip?
Zoom's H4N can vary speed of audio that it records, but often has trouble doing that to podcasts (from CBC, etc.). Is there a way to persuade it to work with nearly "any" MP3?
If not, what FOSS ...
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portable player to replace minidisc
I've been using minidisc players for the last decade. Since that technology is as good as dead, and so will by my last player soon, I'm in the market for the latest and greatest portable music player ...
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Enhance badly converted 128kbps mp3 samples
i have very old recordings of songs (from my own bands) for which i don't have the source anymore and which have been badly converted to a bad quality mp3 (128kbps)
I know that's all wrong but i was ...
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File renaming of MP3 [closed]
I have a huge music collection and a good majority of it is Billboards Top 100. The Tags on the files are incorrect and the file names are similar.
15-Kay_Kyser-Woody_Woodpecker.mp3
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Free Linux tool to convert FLV to MP3
I'm looking for a free Linux tool that can convert a rather large collection of FLV files into MP3 format. Most of the tools I've tried use ffmpeg under the hood, but they fail to convert many of the ...
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Best lossy format for music?
Which one of the lossy file formats like Ogg, AAC, Mp3, Wma has the best quality/size ratio?
I've seen that AACs are smaller than MP3 at the same bitrates. Do they sound worse than MP3?
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Need to convert large WMA library to MP3 or AAC. Software recommendations?
I've got a large WMA music collection that I want to convert to MP3 or AAC. Yes, I know it's not recommended to convert audio files from one format to another because I'll lose quality, HOWEVER, my ...
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Is source bit depth/sampling rate relevant for mp3 conversion?
Will an MP3 file, encoded from a 16-bit, 44.1 kHz source sound better or worse than an MP3 file, encoded with identical settings, but from a 24-bit, 96 kHz source? Or will there be no audible ...
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In what ways does mp4 improve on mp3?
I know mp4 is supposed to have 'higher sound quality at a lower file size', but:
how does it do this? How does it compress more information into a smaller space?
How much of mp3 is still used? Was ...
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What software is best to record stereo and encode mp3
I want to be able to record band practices and then quickly create mp3s and send them out. Fidelity doesn't matter so much, right now I'm using garage band, creating an m4a from garage band and then ...
